Alain Juppé was the exceptional guest of Europe 1 Thursday to evoke his memory of Jacques Chirac.

He returned in particular to the controversial sentence of the former President, "the noise and the smell".

But for Alain Juppé, it was not a mistake, but a truth.

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It is a sentence pronounced by Jacques Chirac which had caused controversy: "the noise and the smell", in 1991. Jacques Chirac then regretted this exit.

“I sometimes disagree with Jacques Chirac. I don't think it was stupid, it was a truth,” said Alain Juppé at the microphone of Europe 1 Thursday evening.

"You have to see in what context he said it. It was after having visited with me the district of the Goutte d'Or, in Paris. It was an extraordinarily difficult district, and it still is, with drug security problems The reality that Jacques Chirac describes was indeed reality. , or we try to change things. We have invested deeply in this district to renovate the habitat, create public facilities, "continued Alain Juppé.

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